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Overview
Heyu inhabits Mount Yan in the Shanhaijing’s fourth eastern itinerary. It has a piglike body, a human face, yellow coloring and a red tail. Its voice resembles an infant. It eats people, but the same passage also says it eats insects and snakes. Its appearance foretells great flooding. These details make its threat more specific than an ominous animal with only an unusual face.
Human consumption is listed alongside insects and snakes in its diet. The yellow body, human face and red tail give the creature a more specific appearance than the pig comparison alone, while its infantlike call adds an acoustic resemblance to a child.
Origins & earliest records
China; Shanhaijing Eastern Mountains
Records & interpretation
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Shanhaijing, Eastern Mountains
Fourth eastern itinerary; Mount Yan
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Primary records and illustrations
Shanhaijing
Eastern Mountains. Fourth eastern itinerary; Mount Yan
Specific named primary transcription directly read: 合窳. No historical scan assigned unless the evidence row explicitly supplies one.
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- Primary text transcriptionShanhaijing Eastern Mountains received primary textResearch access: 2026-10-05
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